In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRSo 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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