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.
JOHN MUIRAnother glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
More John Muir Quotes
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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.
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Take me into the mountains.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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