But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRAs age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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 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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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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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
JOHN MUIR