It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR






