Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIRYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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