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 MUIRNothing dollarable is safe.
More John Muir Quotes
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Take me into the mountains.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
JOHN MUIR