Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR