At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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