Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
JOHN MUIRIt 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
JOHN MUIR