Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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