Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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