Going to the woods is going home.
JOHN MUIRWe all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
More John Muir Quotes
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The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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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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The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
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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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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
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Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
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