And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIRAt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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