Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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