The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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.
JOHN MUIR