Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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.
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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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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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