Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Take me into 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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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