When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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