Wander 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.
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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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 age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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