We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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