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 MUIRAs if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR






