But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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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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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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