As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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