Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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I 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.
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