As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
JOHN MUIR