Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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