The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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