The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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