Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR