On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIR