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.
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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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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