One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
JOHN MUIR






