There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRTake me into the mountains.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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
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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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