Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRI ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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