Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRSo 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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 were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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