Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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