I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRAs 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR






