In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRWander 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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