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.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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 our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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