As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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