Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIR