Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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