I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
JOHN MUIR