Wildness is a necessity.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Take me into the mountains.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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