Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
More John Muir Quotes
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIR