This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIROnly 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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