Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIRMountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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