Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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