There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRThis time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on 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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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
JOHN MUIR






