Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
JOHN MUIR