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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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