Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the mountains is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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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.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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.
JOHN MUIR