The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRHow glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
More John Muir Quotes
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in 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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
JOHN MUIR
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