Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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