We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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