Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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 world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Take me into the mountains.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Yet 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.
JOHN MUIR