Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than 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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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