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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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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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