Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Take me into the mountains.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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