John Muir quotes - page 2

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. (John Muir)
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love. View quote
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The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love. View quote
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So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... . View quote
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Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. View quote
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Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. View quote
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. View quote
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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. View quote
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue. View quote
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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. View quote
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools. (John Muir)
There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties. View quote
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One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes. View quote
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. View quote
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish. View quote
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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. View quote
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Of all the fire-mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. View quote
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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine. View quote
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To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be. View quote
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. View quote
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I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. (John Muir)
"The water in music the oar forsakes." The air in music the wing forsakes. All things move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars. View quote
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines? View quote
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Surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them. View quote
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Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves. View quote
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