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John Muir Quotes

«I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.»
«God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.»
«I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.»
«?The 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.?»
«Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place»
«Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.»
Author: John Muir | Keywords: connected, tug, tugging, tugs
«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.»
«Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen»
Author: John Muir | Keywords: mountains, Wise Men
«A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.»
«How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!»

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