Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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