Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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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.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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