Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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