The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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 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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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