This is Nature’s own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended.
JOHN MUIRThe soft light of morning falls upon ripening forests of oak and elm, walnut and hickory, and all Nature is thoughtful and calm.
More John Muir Quotes
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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Going to the mountains is going home.
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Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
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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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One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.
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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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Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
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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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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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Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
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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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What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
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But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.
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Take me into the mountains.
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