When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR






