The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
JOHN MUIRIn every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
More John Muir Quotes
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Take me into the mountains.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIR
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