Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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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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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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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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