Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR