The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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Going to the woods is going home.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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