When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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