Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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The 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.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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