Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIR






