Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
JOHN MUIREverybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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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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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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Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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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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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
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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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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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