The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIROf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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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.
JOHN MUIR