Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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