There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRIn drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR