Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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