Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I 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.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
JOHN MUIR