Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRHow narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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