Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Take me into the mountains.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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