I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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At 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.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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