Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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