Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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