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
JOHN MUIRNight is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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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 mountains are calling and I must go.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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