Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR