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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

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John Muir
Age: 76 †
Born: 1838
Born: April 21
Died: 1914
Died: December 24
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In the woods is perpetual youth.
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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?
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A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: You will die before you can do anything else.
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
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But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
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The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
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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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Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.
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Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
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Our lives are rounded with a sleep.
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Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
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The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
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Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.
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A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
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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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The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.
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