Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIRThe sun shines not on us but in us.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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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.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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
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