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.
JOHN MUIR
Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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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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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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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
JOHN MUIR