As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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