When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIRIt seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
More John Muir Quotes
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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