There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in 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!
JOHN MUIR






