I never saw a discontented tree.
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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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 nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.
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There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.
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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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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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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.
JOHN MUIR