How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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