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 MUIRThousands 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
More John Muir Quotes
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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