In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIRThousands 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
More John Muir Quotes
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I 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.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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