I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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