On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
JOHN MUIRGoing to the woods is going home.
More John Muir Quotes
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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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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Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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