Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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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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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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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 hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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