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.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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