Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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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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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 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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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