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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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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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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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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