One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRThe world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
More John Muir Quotes
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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.
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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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