One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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