More from John Muir
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
John MuirJohn Muir When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John MuirJohn Muir 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.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing dollarable is safe.
John MuirJohn Muir When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirJohn Muir In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
John MuirJohn Muir Nothing truly wild is unclean.
John MuirJohn Muir 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.
John MuirJohn Muir The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
John MuirJohn Muir Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
John MuirJohn Muir Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
John MuirJohn Muir On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
John MuirJohn Muir The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John MuirJohn Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John MuirJohn Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John MuirJohn Muir Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
John MuirJohn Muir The mountains are calling and I must go.
John MuirJohn Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John MuirJohn Muir Going to the mountains is going home.
John MuirJohn Muir We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
John MuirJohn Muir One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
John MuirJohn Muir 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
John MuirJohn Muir Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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