Learn to live like the wild animals
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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 through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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