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.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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