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.
JOHN MUIRTherefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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