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.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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