No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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