I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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