In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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