Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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