Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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