One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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