Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Wander 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.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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