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.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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