Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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If 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.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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