Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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