Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR