Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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 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.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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