In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
JOHN MUIR






