The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR