And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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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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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR