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.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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