When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR