Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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