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.
JOHN MUIRNot blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIR
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