Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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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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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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