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.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
JOHN MUIR