Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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.
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Take me into the mountains.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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