No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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