Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR