Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRNature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
More John Muir Quotes
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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