Quote #24
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
More from John Muir
- I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
- The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men wh…
- This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever ris…
- It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I …
- I have known many dogs, and many a story I could tell of their wisdom and devotion; but to none do I owe so much as to Stickeen. At first t…
- Most people are on the world, not in it-have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-undiffused, separate, and rigidly…
- No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.
- How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mou…