One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIRBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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Take me into the mountains.
JOHN MUIR