So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
JOHN MUIR






