How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR