Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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.
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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