The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRBetween every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIR






