Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR






