One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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