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 MUIRCome to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






