Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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 seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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