Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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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.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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.
JOHN MUIR