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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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