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.
JOHN MUIRLearn to live like the wild animals
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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