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.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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 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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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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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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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
JOHN MUIR