Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR






