Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIR