When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
JOHN MUIROnly 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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