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.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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