Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
JOHN MUIRThe galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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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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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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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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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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