On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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