Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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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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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 soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR