Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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 where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






