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.
JOHN MUIRThe power of imagination makes us infinite.
More John Muir Quotes
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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