On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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 ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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