In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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