We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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