A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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