Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRWe are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
More John Muir Quotes
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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