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• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

  John Muir

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Philip Hyde, John Muir (1992). “The range of light: photographs”, Gibbs Smith

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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Environmental

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Short Life, Fate, Blessing

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.136, e-artnow

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• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, Sky

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.337, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

  John Muir

  Wall, Sky, Mountain

  John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”

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• I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

  John Muir

  Nature, Wind, Water

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails”, p.129, e-artnow

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• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  John Muir

  Happiness, Nature, Travel

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Doors, Sky

  John Muir (2001). “Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple”

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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.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.301, The Mountaineers Books

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• Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

  John Muir

  Sorrow, Earth, Heal

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.100, Great West Books

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• No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

  John Muir

  Life, Risk, Hardship

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Life, Song, Cutting

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

  John Muir

  Spring, Enthusiasm, Joyful

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.170, Library of America

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• Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

  John Muir

  Learning, Air, Water

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

  John Muir

  Hands, Yosemite, Temples

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.589, The Mountaineers Books

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• See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

  John Muir

  Writing, Calm Mind, Technical Knowledge

  John Muir (2015). “THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring”, p.190, e-artnow

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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. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.

  John Muir

  Science, Humanity, Unity

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• I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

  John Muir

  People, Looks, Care

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.207, The Mountaineers Books

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• No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Garden, Sublime

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.275, Library of America

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• Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

  John Muir

  Inspiring, Tugging, Connected

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• One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.

  John Muir

  Morning, Lakes, Rivers

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.521, e-artnow

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• I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

  John Muir

  Animal, Meals, Mosquitoes

  John Muir (1972). “Trails of wonder: writings on nature and man”

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• The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

  John Muir

  Men, Rivers, Mountain

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.216, e-artnow

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