Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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