But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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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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