Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Take me into the mountains.
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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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The sun shines not on us but in us.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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