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 MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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