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 MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIR






