In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIRGo quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
More John Muir Quotes
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Take me into the mountains.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR