In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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