Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
JOHN MUIR