All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR