We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR