How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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