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.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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 day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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