Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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So 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.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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