Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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