Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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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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