Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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 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.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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