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 MUIRTo the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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 day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR