It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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