One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.
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There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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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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Yet through all this stress the forest is maintained in marvelous beauty.
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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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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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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world’s wildernesses I first should wander.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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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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Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, silent stream.
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