Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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 rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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