Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRBut we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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