One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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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.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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