Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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 making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR






