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.
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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
JOHN MUIR