Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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All 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.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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 sun shines not on us but in us.
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