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!
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Going to the mountains is going home.
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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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