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“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

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“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like
worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
songs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)”
― John Muir

tags: beauty, being, connectedness, environment, existence, exuberance, joy, nature, song

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#3

“I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”
― John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

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#4

“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.”
― John Muir

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#5

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”
― John Muir, The Yosemite

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#6

“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 from mine.”
― John Muir

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#7

“In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

tags: mountains, nature, outdoors, pantheism

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#8

“learn to live like the wild animals,”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

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#9

“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

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#10

“Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

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#11

“But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.”
― John Muir, Steep Trails

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#12

“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.”
― John Muir

tags: stress-relief, wilderness

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#13

“You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.”
― John Muir, Wilderness Essays

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#14

“Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#15

“Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.”
― John Muir, Travels in Alaska

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#16

“But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.”
― John Muir, Wilderness Essays

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#17

“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.”
― John Muir

tags: forest, nature, woods

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#18

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.”
― John Muir

tags: mountains, walking

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#19

“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

tags: john-muir, nature, sierra-mountains, wilderness

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#20

“Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.”
― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir

tags: cell, fiber, harp, harp-strings, john-muir, life, music, throbbing

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#21

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

tags: glacier-meadows, john-muir, nature, wilderness

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#22

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#23

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#24

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#25

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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#26

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#27

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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#28

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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#29

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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#30

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
― Jimmy Carter

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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