A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIRCome to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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