A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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 mountains are calling and I must go.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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