I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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