The power of imagination makes us infinite.
JOHN MUIRWander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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