What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly 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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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