In our best times everything turns into religion, all the world seems a church and the mountains altars.
JOHN MUIRAs 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.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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Wildness is a necessity.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Therefore all childish fear must be put away.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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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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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill.
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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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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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