Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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