But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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