We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Take me into the mountains.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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