It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
JOHN MUIRWildness is a necessity.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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