There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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