It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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