The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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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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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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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