When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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