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!
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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized.
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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset.
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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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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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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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Learn to live like the wild animals
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The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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