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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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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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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