Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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