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 MUIRHidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIR






