Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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