In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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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Take me into the mountains.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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