The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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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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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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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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