Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR