Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Take me into the mountains.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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