I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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