I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR