As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRIn the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR






