Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Going to the woods is going home.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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