In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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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 every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
JOHN MUIR