Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
JOHN MUIROne must labor for beauty as for bread.
More John Muir Quotes
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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!
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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 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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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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