Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
JOHN MUIRIt is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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