One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Take me into the mountains.
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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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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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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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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