One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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So 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.
JOHN MUIR