Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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