Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR