Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIRHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent 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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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.
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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