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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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