Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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