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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.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.”
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
― John Muir

“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”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe

[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]”
― John Muir

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
― John Muir

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
― John Muir

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.”
― John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“Going to the mountains is going home.”
― John Muir

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
― John Muir

“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties”
― John Muir

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
― John Muir

“As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".”
― John Muir

“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, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
― John Muir

“Ако човек положи известни усилия да изглежда нормален, ще си спести доста време, през което спокойно да бъде такъв, какъвто иска да е.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Бог е насекомо, което ни гледа. Само малкото може да бъде навсякъде.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата

“Дадох си сметка, за пръв път с тази яснота (яснотата на януарския въздух), че онова, което остава не са извънредните моменти, не са събитията, а тъкмо нищонеслучващото се. Време, освободено от претенцията за изключителност. Спомени за следобеди, в които нищо не се е случило. Нищо, освен живота, в цялата му пълнота.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата

“За щастие нещата, които ме занимават, нямат тегло.
Миналото, тъгата и литературата - само тези три безтегловни кита ме интересуват.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“- А дали в историята на света, написана от мечото ухо ще ни има и нас?
- Не знам. Мислиш ли, че мечото ухо присъства в историята на света, написана от хората?”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Бях роден от собствената си майка и баща, но това не ме правеше по-малко минотавър. Продължавах да прекарвам дългите си дни сам, на прозореца, прелиствайки една книга.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата