Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR