But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIROn no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
JOHN MUIR