There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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