Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRGo where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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.
JOHN MUIR