And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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