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 MUIRThousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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