The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRAs long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
JOHN MUIR