The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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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.
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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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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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