Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIROne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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