One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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