One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIREvery sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
More John Muir Quotes
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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