Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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