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81 " Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing "
― John Muir
82 " I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. "
― John Muir , Wilderness Essays
83 " One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else. "
― John Muir , Our National Parks
84 " One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. "
85 " God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool "
86 " No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! "
87 " How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! "
88 " 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 , Travels in Alaska
89 " Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. "
90 " 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... "
91 " Wander a whole summer if you can...time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. "
92 " Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. "
93 " The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. "
94 " Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.... "
95 " All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander. "
― John Muir , The Yosemite
96 " God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools. "
97 " 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. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! "
98 " Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike. "
99 " In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts. "
100 " …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. "