Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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