Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRI have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Take me into the mountains.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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