And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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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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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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