One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
JOHN MUIRBut it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
More John Muir Quotes
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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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 deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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