I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRNo synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIR