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 MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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