Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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