Learn to live like the wild animals
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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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