Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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Take me into the mountains.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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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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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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.
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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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