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.
JOHN MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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