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
JOHN MUIRIn God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
More John Muir Quotes
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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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One must labor for beauty as for bread.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Take me into the mountains.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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Mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
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In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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