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 MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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