Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR