We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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