John Muir

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.

Topic: Nature, Solitude
Location: Glacier National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

Imagination Possibility Power Thinking

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

Peace Solitude

How glorious a greeting the sun gives. — John Muir

Nature Optimism

Going to the mountains is going home. — John Muir

Nature Solitude

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

› John Muir

Awareness Self Solitude

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

› John Muir

Awareness Perception Self Society

Society

More Quotes from Glacier National Park

There’s place and means for every man alive. — William Shakespeare

Leadership Team Teamwork

Habits

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

› Norman Vincent Peale

Belief Obstacles Thinking

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela

Commitment Perseverance Persistence Work

Action

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. — Will Rogers

Humor

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. — Winston Churchill

Passion Thinking

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Choice Courage Decision Fear

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

Common Sense Society Thinking

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Nature

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

› Aristotle

Appreciation Experience Nature

Nature Optimism

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

› Vincent van Gogh

Dreams Nature

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship Nature

Nature Perception Solitude

There’s no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. — William Shakespeare

Nature Time

Nature

As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. — Mark Twain

Appreciation Awareness Gratitude Nature Solitude

To breathe the same air as the angels, you must go to Tahoe. — Mark Twain

Life Nature Solitude

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

› Vincent van Gogh

Life Nature Perception

Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished. — Lao-tzu

Nature Patience

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

› Pythagoras

Goals Nature

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change Nature

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

› Victor Hugo

Nature Perception

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

› Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity Inspiration Nature

Experience Nature

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak. — William Shakespeare

Nature

Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which was never before and shall never be seen again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appreciation Gratitude Nature Time

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

› Alexander Graham Bell

Nature Perception

The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

Without great solitude no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso

Alone Possibility Solitude Stress

Peace Solitude

If fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. — Terence

Education Learning Society Solitude

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

› Thich Nhat Hanh

Awareness Self Solitude

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

› Epictetus

Gratitude Humility Solitude

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there. — Rumi

Solitude

In silence man can most readily preserve integrity. — Meister Eckhart

Communication Integrity Leadership Listening Solitude

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

› Malcolm X

Awareness Perception Society Solitude