It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Take me into the mountains.
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