It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRWhat 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!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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 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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIR






