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 MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIR