I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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 were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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