In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Wildness is a necessity.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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.
JOHN MUIR