As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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 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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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