How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR