Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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 clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIR