There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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