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I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

John Muir
Thinking, Church, Mountain

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
Cutting, Tree, Church
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.237, Library of America

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