Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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