"Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono……" — John Muir
"Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite."
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273 Quotes by John Muir
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead…
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten…
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any…
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why…
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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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Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same…
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How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth…
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of…
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It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the…
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