One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
JOHN MUIRThe 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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