The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR