A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but 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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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