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.
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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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