Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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 galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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