Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRThere is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
More John Muir Quotes
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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