Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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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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