It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRWhen one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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