Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRSo also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Take me into the mountains.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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 mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR






