Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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 one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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