Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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