I never saw a discontented tree.
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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Only 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.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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.
JOHN MUIR