The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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