Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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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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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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