Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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