Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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