How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRThere is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Take me into the mountains.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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