It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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