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What does it mean?
The day was perfect and the air felt sweet and refreshing.
In plain terms
The day was beautiful and the air was sweet.
What can you take from it?
Notice the simple joy of fresh air.

Where it applies

  • hiking
  • breathing
  • mornings

Putting it to work

  • smell the air
  • appreciate sunny days

Questions to consider

  • When did you feel fully alive?
  • What makes a day perfect?

Another view

Not every day feels this way.

More from John Muir

  1. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

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  2. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.

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  3. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

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