We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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 MUIR