This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR