I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIR






