In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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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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