Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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