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.
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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Take me into the mountains.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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