Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
JOHN MUIREvery hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
JOHN MUIR