In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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