The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIR