Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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.
JOHN MUIR