It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRFew places in this world are more dangerous than home.
More John Muir Quotes
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR