As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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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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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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