Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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