The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
JOHN MUIRI 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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!
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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.
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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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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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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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