Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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