This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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 MUIR