One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRIf people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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