In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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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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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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