Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR
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