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.
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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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