There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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