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1. “Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.” -John Muir
2. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” -John Muir
3. “The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.” -John Muir
4. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” -John Muir
5. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” -John Muir
6. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” -John Muir
7. “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.” -John Muir
8. “The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.” -John Muir
9. “Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.” -John Muir
10. “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.” -John Muir
11. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” -John Muir
12. “None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.” -John Muir
14. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” -John Muir
15. “Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.” -John Muir
16. “The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.” -John Muir
17. “Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.” -John Muir
18. “To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.” -John Muir
19. “We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.” -John Muir
20. “One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.” -John Muir
21. “Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.” -John Muir
22. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” -John Muir
23. “Going to the mountains is going home.” -John Muir
24. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” -John Muir
25. “Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing” -John Muir
26. “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” -John Muir
27. “The battle for conservation must go on endlessly. It is part of the universal warfare between right and wrong.” -John Muir
28. “The sun shines not on us but in us.” -John Muir
29. “Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away.” -John Muir
30. “Most people are on the world, not in it.” -John Muir
31. “The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.” -John Muir
32. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.” -John Muir
33. “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.” -John Muir
34. “Wherever we go in the mountains, or indeed in any of God’s wild fields, we find more than we seek.” -John Muir
35. “And into the woods I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” -John Muir
36. “It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.” -John Muir
37. “I never saw a discontented tree.” -John Muir
38. “Wherever there were glaciers, the world was in a constant state of creation.” -John Muir
39. “One must labor for beauty as for bread.” -John Muir
40. “There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.” -John Muir
41. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” -John Muir
42. “Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.” -John Muir
43. “Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.” -John Muir
44. “The snow is melting into music.” -John Muir
45. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” -John Muir
46. “Wilderness is a necessity… there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls…” -John Muir
47. “Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.” -John Muir
48. “Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress…” -John Muir
49. “I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.” -John Muir
50. “Look up and down and round about you.!” -John Muir