One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRIt was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
More John Muir Quotes
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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