I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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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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