Nothing truly wild is unclean.
JOHN MUIREverything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
More John Muir Quotes
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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