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.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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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.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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
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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.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR






