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 MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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 deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR






