Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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