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
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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on 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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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 touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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