The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR