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.
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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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