Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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