Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIR






