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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

John Muir

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIR

Alone Heart Hotel Nature Silence Travel Wild
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR

Delicious Lungs Nature Tongue
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
JOHN MUIR

Care Duty Love Mother Nature Recognize Wild
The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIR

Aware Civilization Healing Wound
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
JOHN MUIR

Attachment Finding Inspirational Nature World
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
JOHN MUIR

Blossom Change Darkness Flower Frozen Rain Rainbow Sky Snow
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
JOHN MUIR

Affair Bound Flood Master Men Tide
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR

Finding Forest Lost Mind Nature Soul Travel Trekking
Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Necessary One Liner Travel Wild
Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Listen Men Mountain Society Speak Wisdom Wise
Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR

Nature Peace Travel World
Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIR

Children Fear Hiking One Liner Travel Trekking
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 MUIR

Beginning Civil Finding Hiking Home Mountain People Tired Trekking Wild
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIR

Enthusiasm Hiking Mountain Nature Trekking
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 MUIR

Environment Forest Hear Nature People Preservation Speak Tree Vanish Wood
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIR

Alaska Country Love Lovers Travel Wonderful World

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

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