Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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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 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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR