Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIRWho wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
More John Muir Quotes
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIR