Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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.
JOHN MUIR