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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.

John Muir

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR

Care Live Love Nature Peace People Travel
But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
JOHN MUIR

Blow Darkness Display Impressive Night Storm Waves
Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Land Mountain Travel
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR

Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR

Death Die Glory Mountain Reality Time
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR

Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature Trekking
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
JOHN MUIR

Fragment Harmony Nature Relative
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIR

Angel Guardian Guide Inspirational People Sheep Storm
Thousands 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
JOHN MUIR

Beginning Civil Finding Hiking Home Mountain People Tired Trekking Wild
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR

Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
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 MUIR

Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIR

Benefit Exist God Man
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR

Death Ideas
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR

Hiking Mountain Nature One Liner Trekking Unclean
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.
JOHN MUIR

Holiday Nature Wander Wild World

In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.

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