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
JOHN MUIRSociety speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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