Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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