Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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