Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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