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 MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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 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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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