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 MUIRWalk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
JOHN MUIR