Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
JOHN MUIR