Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIR
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.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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