One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIRIf 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR