How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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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