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.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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