Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR






