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.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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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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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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