Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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 never saw a discontented tree.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIR






