In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIRSo also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR