In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRSo also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
More John Muir Quotes
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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