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.
JOHN MUIRWander 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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