Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
JOHN MUIRYet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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