This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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