Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Wander 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.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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