A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR