Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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