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.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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