How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR