It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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All 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.
JOHN MUIR






