In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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 ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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