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.
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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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