Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
JOHN MUIRThousands 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
More John Muir Quotes
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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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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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.
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The soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
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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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Nothing dollarable is safe.
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