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.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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