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John Muir
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going ...
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. ...
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever fal...
“John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field jour...
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and howeve...
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in....
“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the...
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The win...
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial wor...
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and ...
“Most people areonthe world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused,...
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give streng...
