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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

John Muir

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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Benefit Exist God Man
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Animal Care Clear Earth Forest Universe Wild
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Beautiful Children Communication Death Life Nature Walk
One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Nature Travel Walk
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Government Nature Travel Wild
Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Beautiful Forest Maintain Marvelous Nature Stress

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.

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