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
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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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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