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.
JOHN MUIRWe were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
More John Muir Quotes
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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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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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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