Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
JOHN MUIRNothing truly wild is unclean.
More John Muir Quotes
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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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The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts.
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
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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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Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.
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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
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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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One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.
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Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before.
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool.
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It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
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We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.
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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.
JOHN MUIR






