Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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