Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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