I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR






