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.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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