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.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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