The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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