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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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.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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