Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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