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 MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
More John Muir Quotes
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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