Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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 were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
JOHN MUIR