Going to the mountains is going home.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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