Nothing makes people think adventure more than John Muir quotes. Well placed John Muir quotes can take your Instagram post from quickly forgotten to internet stardom. It couldn’t be easier to effectively demonstrate your adventurous spirit than by quoting one of the most famous adventurers of all times. But don’t use the same old “The Mountains are calling and I must go.” We found the deep cuts of John Muir quotes. So deep in fact, that we couldn’t actually find any of these in John Muir’s writings. But that just means your post will be even more hip and unique due to the rarity of your John Muir quote choice.
“Keep close to Nature’s breasts… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb those voluptuous mountains or spend a week deep in the woods. Wash yourself clean…seriously wash yourself, you could get a disease or something.”
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread (but really bread is more important), places to play in and pray in (unless you are an atheist), where nature may heal (or kill) and give strength to body and soul.”
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“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, we realize we took way too much acid.”
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“The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as lovers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canyons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty, courage, and sexual prowess.”
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“Rocks and waters are words of God, and so are men, and bacon, and weed. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one love, one heart. Let’s get together and feel all right.”
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“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home, especially for those with reverse agoraphobia. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They may kill you, save you from a long boring life, set you free from your earthly responsibilities, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action (until you die).”
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“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. Particularly when you are homeless.”
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“There is a love of wild women in everybody, an ancient and strange mother-love showing itself, whether recognized or not, and however covered by an Oedipus complex.”
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