As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
JOHN MUIR