Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR






