Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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