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John Muir Inspirational Quotes (173)

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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
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I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
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The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
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Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
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Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
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Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
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The power of imagination is infinite.
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Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
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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.
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Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.
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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
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I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.
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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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We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always
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A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: You will die before you can do anything else.
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This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere the dew is never dried all at once a shower is forever falling vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
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