Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIROne should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR






