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.
JOHN MUIRThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More John Muir Quotes
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Take me into the mountains.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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