Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRThe mountains are calling and I must go.
More John Muir Quotes
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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All 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.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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