Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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