Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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