Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR