Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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