Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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