On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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