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 MUIRIn our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
More John Muir Quotes
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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 care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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