A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIR






