Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRThere is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
More John Muir Quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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