But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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