There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRI am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
More John Muir Quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR