The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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