Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIR