Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRIf people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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.
JOHN MUIR