But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRWriting is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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