When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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