It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Muir


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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.

John Muir


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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

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The sun shines not on us but in us.

John Muir

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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

John Muir


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John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe

[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

John Muir

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The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

John Muir

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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

John Muir


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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

John Muir

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