Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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