It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIR