Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRLet children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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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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Take me into the mountains.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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