I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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