Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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