Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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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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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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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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.
JOHN MUIR