Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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