Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
JOHN MUIR