Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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