Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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.
JOHN MUIR