Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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