John Muir Quotes
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It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
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What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
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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…
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Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by…
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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…
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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…
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as…
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!
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Most people are on the world, not in it.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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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…
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When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
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One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
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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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