I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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