Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRYet 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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