To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
JOHN MUIR