But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIROnly 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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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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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the 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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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