The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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