All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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