And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIRI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
More John Muir Quotes
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
JOHN MUIR






