When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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There 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.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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 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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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