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.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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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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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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