Walks Quotes by John Muir

12 Walks quotes by John Muir

Muir’s reverence for the wild is evident even in his thoughts on walking. These twelve brief passages let his love of forests and mountains echo in each step, inviting readers to feel the earth beneath their soles.

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity...

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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…

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

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A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage…

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial…

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I was a few miles south of Louisville when I planned my journey. I spread out my map under a tree and…

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as…

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If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the…

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Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place…

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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly…

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.…

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