Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIRAnyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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