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.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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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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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
JOHN MUIR






