Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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