Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
JOHN MUIRMost people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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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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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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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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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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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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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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIR
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