John Muir Quotes

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• It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
• What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and…
• Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
• These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by…
• 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…
• We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that…
• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as…
• When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity…
• Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are…
• How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
• Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man…
• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
• Most people are on the world, not in it.
• I never saw a discontented tree.
• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts…
• When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
• One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…

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