One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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