Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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