As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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The 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.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIR