One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIRA part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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It 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.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR