More from John Muir
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
John MuirJohn Muir The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
John MuirJohn Muir It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
John MuirJohn Muir We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
John MuirJohn Muir As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
John MuirJohn Muir The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
John MuirJohn Muir This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
John MuirJohn Muir To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John MuirJohn Muir Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
John MuirJohn Muir In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
John MuirJohn Muir Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
John MuirJohn Muir Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
John MuirJohn Muir Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
John MuirJohn Muir Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
John MuirJohn Muir In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
John MuirJohn Muir Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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When you walking along naturally, you’re walking in the harmony of the Unborn.
Bankei YotakuBankei Yotaku I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff.
Adrianne PalickiAdrianne Palicki That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
Adam RichmanAdam Richman Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.
Adam RichmanAdam Richman Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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