The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR