I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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