Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Take me into the mountains.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR