No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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