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 MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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