I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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