In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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.
JOHN MUIR