I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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