Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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 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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR