The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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