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.
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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIR






