In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRI have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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