The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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