Learn to live like the wild animals
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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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