I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Take me into the mountains.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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