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.
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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR