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 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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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