It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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