Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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.
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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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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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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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