We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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