Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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So 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.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
JOHN MUIR