The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRThere 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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