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 MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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