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.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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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.
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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