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 MUIRClimb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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