When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR






