Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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