Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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