Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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.
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