Everybody needs beauty, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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Wander a whole summer if you can, time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
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We were glad, however, to get within reach of information.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Wildness is a necessity.
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Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.
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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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Take me into the mountains.
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A part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
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In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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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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