Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRThe deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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