Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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