Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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 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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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