How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIR