The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
JOHN MUIRYet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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