Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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