How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR