Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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