Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR






