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Misattributed quotes — John Muir

1838–1914 Scotland

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9 quotes

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

Misattributed These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

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"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

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Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

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"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.

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"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness."

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Brought into right relationship with the wilderness … he would see that his appropriation of earth's resources beyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and beget ultimate loss and poverty for all.

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Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. It's a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why it's good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Muir (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.