One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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Take me into the mountains.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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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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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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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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