Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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