Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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