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.
JOHN MUIRWhat 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!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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 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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Wildness is a necessity.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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