In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
JOHN MUIRSpring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
More John Muir Quotes
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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