Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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