We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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I 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.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR






