Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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