Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
JOHN MUIR