Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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