In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
JOHN MUIROne day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
More John Muir Quotes
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The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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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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Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
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Going to the woods is going home.
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Nothing truly wild is unclean.
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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.
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I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
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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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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
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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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Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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As 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.
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
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It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
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Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
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Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.
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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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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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I never saw a discontented tree.
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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.
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So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
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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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