The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR