One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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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!
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.
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Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get – people, storms, guardian angels, or sheep.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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