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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

John Muir

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIR

Bird Hear Nature Peace Sing Travel Waterfall Winds
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 MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIR

Content Inspirational One Liner Tree
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Travel Walk
In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIR

Church Mountain Nature Religion Time Turn
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.
JOHN MUIR

Benefit Exist God Man
Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
JOHN MUIR

Angel Guardian Guide Inspirational People Sheep Storm
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIR

Age Close Enjoyment Failure Nature Peace
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
JOHN MUIR

Bless Conscious Divine Light Mountain Religion Touch Wait Worship
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.
JOHN MUIR

Ash Care Dust Grace Ignorance Inspirational Knowledge People Time Work Work Hard
We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
JOHN MUIR

Information Knowledge One Liner Reach
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR

Friendship Loneliness Sense Solitude
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.
JOHN MUIR

Afternoon Course Life Man Mountain Sunset
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
JOHN MUIR

Climb Hiking Mountain Tide Travel Trekking
The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIR

Body Flow Past Peace River Sing Substance Vibrate

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

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