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.
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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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.
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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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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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