Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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