I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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