To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR