Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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