Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIRI never saw a discontented tree.
More John Muir Quotes
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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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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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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