Learn to live like the wild animals
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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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.
JOHN MUIR