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.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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