Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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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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 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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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