One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR






