Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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