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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

John Muir

Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
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.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
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.
JOHN MUIR

Holiday Nature Wander Wild World
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
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.
JOHN MUIR

Immortal Inspirational Life Summer Time True Wander
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.
JOHN MUIR

Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
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.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate
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.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
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.
JOHN MUIR

Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR

Book Direction Guide Ignorant People Power Travel
One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR

Care Healing Nature Peace Safety Self Love Travel
Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR

Home Nature One Liner Peace
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR

Darkness Nature One Liner Travel World
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
JOHN MUIR

Beautiful Bread Labor Life One Liner

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

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