One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the 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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIR