Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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