Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRThere is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
More John Muir Quotes
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
JOHN MUIR