Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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