The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRAll 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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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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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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