To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR