The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
JOHN MUIRThis is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
More John Muir Quotes
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIR






