We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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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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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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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.
JOHN MUIR