Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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