It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR