As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIR