I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
JOHN MUIRIf 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Take me into the mountains.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






