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.
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.
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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
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Wildness is a necessity.
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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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Take me into the mountains.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
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