Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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