Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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