I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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