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.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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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.
JOHN MUIR






