One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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